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RENOWNED FEMINIST TO SPEAK ON HUMAN RIGHTS AT YORK UNIVERSITY'S BETCHERMAN LECTURE TORONTO, January 21, 1997: The woman who defeated her own government and precipitated a ban on nuclear ships will bring her views on "Human Rights for Daily Use" to the eighth Barbara Betcherman Memorial Lecture on Wed., Jan. 29 at York University's Osgoode Hall Law School. Marilyn Waring, an internationally-known feminist, author and political economist, became New Zealand's youngest female parliamentarian in 1975, when she was elected at the age of 22. Waring continued to make history once in the House, withdrawing support from her party over the issue of a nuclear-free New Zealand and precipitating a snap election which led to her government's defeat. Her activism eventually led New Zealand to become the first country to ban nuclear ships from its harbours. Waring is now a senior lecturer in social policy and social work at Auckland, New Zealand's Massey University. Her lecture, to be held in Osgoode's Moot Court Room at 7:30 p.m., will focus on her new book, Three Masquerades: Equality, Work and Human Rights. Waring tells readers to expect to find in her new book "considerable anger" about the real obstacles women face in the world today. She refers to her years in Parliament as "an experience of counterfeit equality," and notes that while farming and working in the development field, she was "daily confronted with the travesty of excluding women's unpaid work from the policy-making process." "Osgoode Hall Law School is particularly pleased to have a committed human rights activist and scholar like Marilyn Waring for the 1996-97 Barbara Betcherman Memorial Lecture," said Osgoode Hall Law School Dean Marilyn Pilkington. "Marilyn Waring's continuing efforts to promote equality for women in many parts of the world exemplify very well Barbara Betcherman's commitment to social change for women." Waring is perhaps best known for her research on the United Nations System on National Accounts (UNSNA), research that resulted in her 1988 book, If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics, and in the production of the National Film Board's, Who's Counting: Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies, and Global Economics. Waring is also a consultant with numerous international development agencies, including the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (UNFAO). Waring's recent work has focused on women's work as an issue of international human rights. Waring has also done activist work on behalf of women imprisoned, or denied refugee status. Limited copies of Waring's new book, which was published last fall by Auckland University Press and will be published soon in North America by University of Toronto Press, will be sold at the Barbara Betcherman lecture. To order the book, contact: Valerie Hatton, University of Toronto Press, (416) 978-2239 ext. 253. The Barbara Betcherman Memorial Lecture, honouring a former Osgoode Hall Law School graduate, promotes public discussion about women and the law, including sex equality, feminist theory, and applied legal research in areas of law with a significant impact on women. Waring's full curriculum vitae is available upon request. York University, the third largest university in Canada, is nationally and internationally respected for its innovative research and teaching. With its combination of dedicated and talented faculty, bright and ambitious students, dynamic curriculum and modern campus in the heart of one of North America's most influential urban centres, York University is setting the modern standard in academic excellence.
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